next time i come home at 10pm after cleaning all day i'm not going to try and clean all night

today.


today was a slightly disappointing day. i came home from work around 10:00pm, helped myself to a glass of wine, and was seriously looking forward to vacuuming my room! (because i'm awesome.) to be honest, it was more my bed that needed vacuuming. i just have a futon mattress on the floor and my cat sheds a lot in the summer.

so, i take my glass of wine and my vacuum to my room and quickly find out that 1) i am retarded and 2) i am also stupid.
1) retarded because i have a power strip that enables 3 electrical things to be plugged in to it and i somehow managed to make something work by plugging my lamp into two slots from two separate outlets. does that make sense? so its an outlet like this:
-- -- --
and i had my light plugged so it was like this:
-x x- --
i didn't even know that could work.

2) stupid because just a few days ago i dropped my hard contact lens down the sink and tried to vacuum it out and got water in the vacuum. i mean, we all make mistakes. but most of us are smart enough to realize that the vacuum is not going to dry overnight let alone smell very pretty the next time we use it if we don't clean it out. well.
maybe not.


questions regarding the stupidity of humanity aside- basically, my night was ruined. because i really wanted to vacuum. i wasn't really in the mood to get gross, wet vacuum sludge all over my floor and have to clean the vacuum out in the shower and then have to take a shower myself because i didn't do such a great job of confining the grossness of the vacuum to the shower, etc etc.

i think there is a moral to this story.



on a more serious note,
this is my first *blog* entry. i promised my roommate that what i have to say is very obviously invaluable to all those who are lucky enough to read it. and i have clearly shown that tonight, of course. how else will anyone know that you can, indeed, use two separate outlets to plug in one lamp? or that it might be smart to not vacuum water out of a drain and then attempt vacuuming a bed? and then attempt cleaning the vacuum in hopes that you, yourself, will not need to be cleaned afterward?




(if it seems like a good idea. do something different.)